LeonardY
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I thought Dan was hiding out in your saloon this whole time.
Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT The "Glendora Garage"
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Workspaces sized between 265 and 485 squarefeet.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Shhhhh!!!! You're giving me away!I thought Dan was hiding out in your saloon this whole time.
But seriously, I've been going 5 different directions since I was at Don's last week. I'm gonna head over this week to pick up these plates and of course give a hearty THANK YOU to him.
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Dan in Pasadena
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We drove up to Atascadero (California central coast) Tues to pickup a grand daughter (age 9). Drove back and took in Dodgers Opening Day (night!) Thurs. Our other two (4 & 9) were here on Friday all day. Makes for a bit of a mad house with them here so I can't get anything done but they are very well behaved, they're just little and full of energy and of course, adored.
Friday our son drove down after work. He's 'bustin *** working full time at a hospital, going to school full time to be an RN and still an excellent father to his daughter. Tough life right now but he's getting it done. Today I did an oil change on my Gladiator - SO damn easy with the Fujimoto petcock I installed at the last oil change. Didn't get a drop on me or the driveway, love it. Mowed the lawn, yada, yada, then to surprise him I did a front brake job on his Subaru when he fell asleep. He brought the parts and wanted to do it but his plate is overflowing so I knocked it out quick.
Friday our son drove down after work. He's 'bustin *** working full time at a hospital, going to school full time to be an RN and still an excellent father to his daughter. Tough life right now but he's getting it done. Today I did an oil change on my Gladiator - SO damn easy with the Fujimoto petcock I installed at the last oil change. Didn't get a drop on me or the driveway, love it. Mowed the lawn, yada, yada, then to surprise him I did a front brake job on his Subaru when he fell asleep. He brought the parts and wanted to do it but his plate is overflowing so I knocked it out quick.
PugetDude
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Sounds like a great family weekend, Dan.
Our two grandsons are here from Pittsburgh all next week.
Our two grandsons are here from Pittsburgh all next week.
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Dan in Pasadena
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It really was, Dude!
We all went out for an early Easter brunch at one of our favorite Pasadena restaurants before my stepson & grand daughter had to drive 4 hours back north. I reminded him about "food comas" after an extra good meal. The Dodgers were starting a game as he left so I knew he'd be listening to that.
PS: Brand new grandson, "Elder Daniel" - yeah, unusual names these days but we call him Elderberry and he's as sweet as can be. Only 9 month old . Dad is 6'-4" Maternal grandfather was 6'-4" too in the WWII years. Paternal grandmother is a Swede from near Canadian border. I think he's going to be a strapping big kid.
We all went out for an early Easter brunch at one of our favorite Pasadena restaurants before my stepson & grand daughter had to drive 4 hours back north. I reminded him about "food comas" after an extra good meal. The Dodgers were starting a game as he left so I knew he'd be listening to that.
PS: Brand new grandson, "Elder Daniel" - yeah, unusual names these days but we call him Elderberry and he's as sweet as can be. Only 9 month old . Dad is 6'-4" Maternal grandfather was 6'-4" too in the WWII years. Paternal grandmother is a Swede from near Canadian border. I think he's going to be a strapping big kid.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Now, back to our regularly scheduled program......
We installed an Arlo security camera system at our house. We've found LOTS of wildlife we never knew about. So far we've caught raccoons, skunks, a feral black cat, a pair of crows and a coyote a few times. They all follow the EXACT same path diagonally across the porch headed into/out of the side yard from the front yard. Guessing the coyote is following his nose to food but why do the others follow the same path? Anyway, every morning is a new reveal.
We installed an Arlo security camera system at our house. We've found LOTS of wildlife we never knew about. So far we've caught raccoons, skunks, a feral black cat, a pair of crows and a coyote a few times. They all follow the EXACT same path diagonally across the porch headed into/out of the side yard from the front yard. Guessing the coyote is following his nose to food but why do the others follow the same path? Anyway, every morning is a new reveal.
xtremek
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Nice looking clan, and cool looking wildlife. Part of why I love where we live, the wildlife.
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Dan in Pasadena
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ALMOST did a really lazy, wasteful thing the other day. Was going through our shed and found my old road bike helmet. I thought I'd sold it at our pre-move garage sale in 2020. It was dusty as hell, the pads inside were falling off....I tossed it in the trash.
Then got thinking about it. That was a $90-100 helmet back when I bought it. It's a Giro "Pneumo". It's no longer made but you can buy replacement, thicker pads for under $10 from Amazon so I dug it out of the trash, wiped her down, R&R'd the pads and adjusted straps....good as new. It even looks good still.
I stopped street riding after a hit & run years ago by an old man in a very broken down car - He didn't know he hit anything. Fortunately I didn't go under the car but it scared me. The guy turned left in front of me. I was only going 21mph but I steered hard right, hit him parallel hard, slammed my left palm on the windshield as I went up on the hood and fell back onto the ground. I was clipped in and thought for sure my carbon fiber frame bike was broken but it wasn't. I was able to get up and ride home though a little scraped up. Pretty much stopped riding after that. Now I'm thinking about riding again. I used to ride a couple miles over to the Rose Bowl and around it a few times then home. There's much less traffic and wider streets in Glendora.
Then got thinking about it. That was a $90-100 helmet back when I bought it. It's a Giro "Pneumo". It's no longer made but you can buy replacement, thicker pads for under $10 from Amazon so I dug it out of the trash, wiped her down, R&R'd the pads and adjusted straps....good as new. It even looks good still.
I stopped street riding after a hit & run years ago by an old man in a very broken down car - He didn't know he hit anything. Fortunately I didn't go under the car but it scared me. The guy turned left in front of me. I was only going 21mph but I steered hard right, hit him parallel hard, slammed my left palm on the windshield as I went up on the hood and fell back onto the ground. I was clipped in and thought for sure my carbon fiber frame bike was broken but it wasn't. I was able to get up and ride home though a little scraped up. Pretty much stopped riding after that. Now I'm thinking about riding again. I used to ride a couple miles over to the Rose Bowl and around it a few times then home. There's much less traffic and wider streets in Glendora.
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don long
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Nice to see you are home again after that long trip you were telling me about taking last month.
It's interesting about the night visitors up your way.
It's interesting about the night visitors up your way.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Thanks Don,
Smart thinking on your new display space idea!
Heading out again in a couple weeks to the Southwest. Our Yellowstone plans had to be cancelled due to weather. The RV campground called to say they're delaying opening 3 weeks for the first time in 30 years. They're under 7 ft. of snow, it keeps falling & they have no place left to put it! So we're gonna do what was going to be the 2nd half of the original agenda:
Laughlin & Gallup on the way to Taos, then Santa Fe (p/u my lady's sister & B-I-L flying in), Canyon de Chelly a few days, Sedona the same, then drop the relatives @ Phoenix airport. Hit Blythe on the way home. Only about 2-1/2 weeks this time but it'll still be relatively cool so hopefully a nice, relaxing time.
xtremek
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Amazon has so many good deals, nice save.
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LeonardY
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Oh...Glad you were only scrapped up.
I've been hit by cars twice while bicycling. The first time a woman scooped my handle bar up with her Lincoln. I had to pound on her hood to get her to notice. She slammed on the brakes and I went flying forward. I was able to get my feet un-clipped. Back then we only wore bicycle caps. I was scraped up but my bike was toast.
Second time. I was riding and saw a guy on a cross street looking to make a left hand turn. I was going about 25MPH. He turned to look and never saw me. I was looking right at him. No way for me to stop in time. I had enough time to prepare to get hit. I leaned in to his hood and flipped the bike on the hood. My cranks shattered the windshield. That time I stayed clipped in. Cut my legs pretty badly. I stopped riding after that.
I had to go to court in both cases because both insurance companies tried to blame me for the accidents. I won both cases. The second case I had drawn pictures and taken photos of the accident site. When I was through testifying, the judge asked "You don't have any more drawings?" I said no. He then said "Those were very good." The judge in the second case was an avid bicyclist.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Glad you prevailed but more glad (gladder? ha ha) you weren't seriously hurt! You were VERY lucky 2 times and I was too. Did you actually get any money? At least a new bicycle?
My hit was in the worst part of town heading over to the Rose Bowl. The car was literally FULL of trash up to the windows and the right rear was sagging like it had a broken spring. The driver was old, maybe late 70's-80's and I think had no idea at all anything had happened! He just kept driving.
It's amazing what I thought of in the instant before I was about to hit. I steered hard right, slamming into his passenger side and I stiffened up trying to go up over instead of under - a sure killer. It caused my left palm to slap onto his windshield, he carried me a few feet then I fell off. A couple guys hanging out came over to ask if I was ok? I was so amped-up I said yeah. I unclipped, stood up and took inventory to see if anything was badly hurt - any bones hanging out, etc. Since I could stand I thought I wasn't hurt. But my palm stung pretty bad from the windshield hit and my right knee & shin were bleeding from the pavement. The next morning I had left side body bruises. I guess from his passenger mirror?
Anyway, like I said it scared the **** outta me and I never felt good about riding again. I tried taking my bike over to the Bowl in my truck but I still felt fear so I stopped. I probably should have pushed through it.....or MAYBE (hearing your situation) I avoided the hit that might have killed me!
captain14
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Dan,
Do the replacement pads update the expiration date of the helmet? Usually helmets have a expiration date stamped inside the liner. Just like cheldrens car seats, etc.
Is that the helmet you were wearing during the previously accidents?
Do the replacement pads update the expiration date of the helmet? Usually helmets have a expiration date stamped inside the liner. Just like cheldrens car seats, etc.
Is that the helmet you were wearing during the previously accidents?
LeonardY
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Thanks, me too. I did get money and a new bike along with Bell helmet. I felt like I was wearing a toilet bowl on my head.
Naw, You do what your comfortable with.
I might have stopped after the first but I was on a bike team and had lots of support. I was also 17. I didn't ride alone for years. Always in a pack. The second time I was in my late 20's and about to move to LA. I didn't know the area so I just stopped.
I'm not the child that I would wish on anyone. I remember walking into emergency because I got something stuck above my eyelid. The nurse said, "Walking in. That's a good sign. Usually you're on a stretcher."
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Dan in Pasadena
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Ha ha, yeah me either. I'm a LOT older than you but I spent plenty of time laid up. I think kids fall into categories.
I was mostly a "broken bone kid" but there are "Cut kids" (carving a neckerchief slide in Scouts I put a carving Xacto through the meat of my thumb, no other bad cuts) or "Allergy kids" and of course there are the "animal kids" and "bug kids".
I broke my wrist severely as a 1st grader, 2 fingers in 7th grade, a foot in 8th grade, "pretending to pole vault" as a high school freshman using a tree branch - it slipped, I fell and hit my head - concussion & temporary amnesia - parents took me to the emergency hospital, and on and on. Guess I was joy to my mother. I had sisters 6 and 8 years older than me and they never broke anything!
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Dan in Pasadena
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Fortunately, no it was another helmet. The accident made me think I should buy a better helmet, then I stopped riding so very few miles on it. There were two long-ish stickers inside the helmet but they are worn away from being in a crate knocking around with other bike stuff for years. I don't see any date in it.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Back to my place. Our hedges in back needed trimming. Two are very tall ficus tree hedges. I've been trimming them the first two years here but could never trim the top. I bought portable scaffolding to put my ladder on (yes, I know!).
My SO had a cow about that. Said I was going to fall and kill myself. She hired a guy that trims hedges up & down the street. He does really good work and cleans up everything he trims off..... I still think I could do it but at soon-to-be 69 I guess it's best I hire it out. Pricey though.
BEFORE and AFTERS
My SO had a cow about that. Said I was going to fall and kill myself. She hired a guy that trims hedges up & down the street. He does really good work and cleans up everything he trims off..... I still think I could do it but at soon-to-be 69 I guess it's best I hire it out. Pricey though.
BEFORE and AFTERS
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Can't put a price on staying alive and ambulatory.
I'd hire that out in an instant before becoming a post in the WTF thread with your ladder perched on a scaffold perched on a couple of cement locks perched on some Homer buckets, etc.....
I'd hire that out in an instant before becoming a post in the WTF thread with your ladder perched on a scaffold perched on a couple of cement locks perched on some Homer buckets, etc.....
LeonardY
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Best to hire that out now. I used to cut the neighbor's eucalyptus trees that grew over the wall. I'm to old to climb or use a rope saw anymore. The neighbor doesn't care for me but I still ask. I also let him know that I will pay for the removal of my side and he is welcome to add on to have it further trimmed. He always says no.
This is before. About 70% of the growth is on my side.
During.
This is after.
This is before. About 70% of the growth is on my side.
During.
This is after.
PugetDude
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Copper sulfate...
Bob Heine
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Dan, I trim things from the ground and pay someone to use a ladder. Just had Ixes trim 10 feet off the top of two oak trees and open up a tamarind tree in the back yard so I can throw a cat through it (Florida hurricane thing). If you have a problem that can be fixed with money, it isn't a real problem.
Leonard, a friend was the same way about the ficus in their front yard. One day he did the usual thing after flushing and noticed that it was not only not going down but a fuzzy root was looking back at him. Ficus are bad but eucalyptus trees have adapted to Australia's dry climate and will eventually find a way into his toilet. You would be a special person if you didn't gloat. Paybacks are....
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Dan in Pasadena
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I should have checked in on this ^^^^^ thread about the alive and ambulatory" comment before today's activities.
Our patio structure (starting about post #130) attracts spiders and apparently gnats by the thousands! Since it's white they're VERY obvious, looks terrible. Decided to assemble the scaffold and start vacuuming and brushing. Why not just power wash them off? The gaps. While up there I re-caulked joints where the wood dried and twisted revealing gaps. Last? Spider spray.
About a million trips up and down the ladder and squatting to lock/unlock the scaffold wheels has my legs aching, not to mention I am filthy from all the dust and **** but at least the part I finished looks a lot better. If I get through tomorrow without breaking my face I'll do it with the power washer in the future.
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don long
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Big job there Dan. Somebody must do it. So It was you today and a trip over to home Depot for help tomorrow????
kaymccampbell
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Last thing you want is for the aholes at Dome Hepot to help you. Have you seen what they can do to a lawnmower?
LeonardY
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Dan,
Get one of theses.
I'm sure you have a paint extension pole.
Get one of theses.
I'm sure you have a paint extension pole.
tweidman
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If that helmet is around 5 years old and kept in a shed, it definitely doesn't have the effectiveness that it once had. If I were you, I would replace it. All helmets degrade over time, heat and sun doesn't help either. Stay safe.
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Dan, @LeonardY has a great idea. As a pool owner, I suspect you have a pole or two for you pool cleaning chores. They sell that big fluffy cobweb brush in a pool pole version. Mine came with the house 27 years ago.
Of course Amazon carries them: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026T5404/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Of course Amazon carries them: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026T5404/?tag=atomicindus08-20
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Dan in Pasadena
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I just checked and these cobweb brushes ^^^ are cheap but they don't attach to an ordinary threaded extension pole. But I DO have a long pool brush and I THINK it's head attaches with a little tab that like this brush requires. If not, I'll likely figure out a redneck approach and buy one anyway.Dan, @LeonardY has a great idea. As a pool owner, I suspect you have a pole or two for you pool cleaning chores. They sell that big fluffy cobweb brush in a pool pole version. Mine came with the house 27 years ago.
Of course Amazon carries them: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026T5404/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Once I get all these cobwebs off, finish caulking and spraying it'll be waay easier in the future not to mention it may keep me from falling on my pointed head! Thanks everyone for the input.
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Dan in Pasadena
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More like 10+ years old or older. Why do they lose effectiveness? Does the foam or whatever become dried out/brittle? Or maybe the opposite, dried out and hard. I've been accused of having both a hard head AND having a brittle noggin, ha ha. Yeah, ok I'll start looking for a new (cheaper!) one.
tweidman
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Bangs and bruises, as well as heat can damage the EPS foam. How well you care for your helmet, how often you use it and where you store it can all effect the life span. Kids helmets have the shortest life spans.
I saw a few dings in your picture and the fact that it was stored in a shed, make me think your is past due for replacement.
LeonardY
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Get one of these too. No redneck required.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Finished the brushing, vaccing and spraying. Today ended up mostly being re-caulking areas. It looks WAAY better and I hope I'm done with this job long term as I ordered one of the suggested cobweb brushes - the kind that DOES screw onto a painting extension pole. Summer will determine if more caulking will be needed.
Typical Before and After of the gaps:
Typical Before and After of the gaps:
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Dan in Pasadena
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On an RV trip towing our Gladiator so of course the battery died in Gallup, AZ. I only have minimal tools with me but fortunately they were enough to change the main battery. Damn, it was EXPENSIVE though at an Autozone.
I decided not to try to swap out the small gel battery that is used for the Auto Start/Stop feature. You have to remove the passenger front tire and plastic wheel well liner to get it out so I decided I'll do that when I get home. No jack other than the factory jack, no jack stands, nothing to pry the little plastic fasteners out
nor replacements because some inevitably break. I have all that stuff in my garage though.
I decided not to try to swap out the small gel battery that is used for the Auto Start/Stop feature. You have to remove the passenger front tire and plastic wheel well liner to get it out so I decided I'll do that when I get home. No jack other than the factory jack, no jack stands, nothing to pry the little plastic fasteners out
nor replacements because some inevitably break. I have all that stuff in my garage though.PugetDude
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Gallup, ( …that’s in New Mexico) is lovely this time of year, Dan…
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Dan in Pasadena
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Ha. EXACTLY! I noticed I types in A
I noticed I typed AZ after it posted but I'm in a campground with pretty lousy wifi so it wouldn't let me go back and edit it til now. Hopefully it'll work this time. Right now it only shows a place holder for the photos, not THE photo for me anyway.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Doop, sorry
don long
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Enjoy the rest of your trip Dan. We can all wait for the details til you get back lol
jalexl
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Dan by chance did you know about or checked out ValvoMax Quick drain valve?We drove up to Atascadero (California central coast) Tues to pickup a grand daughter (age 9). Drove back and took in Dodgers Opening Day (night!) Thurs. Our other two (4 & 9) were here on Friday all day. Makes for a bit of a mad house with them here so I can't get anything done but they are very well behaved, they're just little and full of energy and of course, adored.
Friday our son drove down after work. He's 'bustin *** working full time at a hospital, going to school full time to be an RN and still an excellent father to his daughter. Tough life right now but he's getting it done. Today I did an oil change on my Gladiator - SO damn easy with the Fujimoto petcock I installed at the last oil change. Didn't get a drop on me or the driveway, love it. Mowed the lawn, yada, yada, then to surprise him I did a front brake job on his Subaru when he fell asleep. He brought the parts and wanted to do it but his plate is overflowing so I knocked it out quick.
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Dan in Pasadena
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Never heard of it before but I’m sure it would work fine.
Looks like you remove the cap, screw on the hose adapter and then do something - don’t know what has to be done - to allow the oil to flow.
Where as with the one I have you just stick on the clear hose (or not if you don’t want) quarter turn and oil flows out. I’ve only drained my oil once using it so far but it works fine.